Q. Do you know anything about any oil cars that were dropped down on the Pennsylvania railroad towards the round-house? A. I know that oil cars were dropped down there. Q. At what time? A. They were afire when I saw them. I don't know how close to the round-house they went. Q. How were they stopped? A. I think they were bumped against other cars. Q. You don't know of any obstructions placed on the tracks that prevented them from running clear to the round house? A. No. Q. Was there much heat in the round-house when you got there, soon after the troops left? A. The machine shop was on fire. How long it had been burning before, I cannot say. It was burning when I went into D. O. Shafer's office. Q. Had any of the troops been in this machine shop? A. I can't say; some had been shooting out of the bell tower that night. Q. Of the machine shop? A. Yes, sir; the round-house was not on fire, nor the carpenter shop. Q. What has been your avocation for the last eight or ten years? A. I have been a railroad man up to within three years. Q. Have you ever been a conductor on passenger trains? A. No. Q. On freight trains? A. I have been a conductor on freight. Q. Had you any conversation with freight conductors up to the time of the riot, or before that time in relation to any contemplated strike? A. No. Q. Or with any men belonging to the Trainmen's Union? A. No; I never took any stock in that union. Q. Did you see the troops retiring from the round-house? A. Not until they came up on Penn street. Q. Did you see them fired at? A. Not on Penn street. I saw a man who is in jail now, firing from the corner of Twenty-sixth and Penn streets. Q. At the troops? A. Yes. Q. Did you see any whisky running into any of those buildings on fire? A. I saw two cars of high wines on fire. They had stopped them in front of the superintendent's office, and they were throwing water out of the windows to put the fire out. When I went up there I saw it was high wines. Q. Could that have run into the cellar of the buildings or the superintendent's office? A. It would have taken a good bit, for the stone sill was eight or ten inches from the ground, and it would take a great deal to run in there, though a barrel might have rolled in through the window. Q. Where is the battery room under the superintendent's office? A. It is in the west corner of the building--in the cellar. Q. Is it below the grade of the Allegheny Valley track? A. I am not sure. Yes; it is below, the bottom part of it, but along the window sill, I think, it is five or six inches, may be more. Q. It is below the grade of the railroad track? A. The inside of it is, but the outside is about six or eight inches above the ground. I would have to send up to be sure about it. * * * * * William Coats, _sworn with the uplifted hand_: By Mr. Lindsey: Q. Were you connected with the fire department of the city of Pittsburgh last July?